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Calient & Plexxi Launch SDN Data Center System

March 18, 2013 |
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for photonic switching technology, and Plexxi Inc., creator of the industry’s first affinity-driven networking solution, today announced a product integration that demonstrates the benefits of a software defined optical layer in today’s complex and highly dynamic data centers: increased flexibility, time savings and decreased complexity.

Aimed at large-scale data centers, this integration leverages the major tenet of software-defined networking (SDN): a centralized controller operating with a network-wide view to drive forwarding behavior.

With its Plexxi Control, Plexxi has introduced a way to push the benefits of optics in the data center – advances in scale and economics for performance, power and latency and unprecedented flexibility – to the server edge. This allows large groups of servers to be interconnected over an optical mesh fabric, helping those benefits become a reality.

The integration with CALIENT’s S320 optical circuit switch takes this to the next level by extending the advantage of the software defined optical layer to large enterprises and hyperscale cloud data centers. These networks typically experience very high bandwidth, with dynamic but persistent traffic flows, that are well supported by the cost-efficiency and virtually unlimited scalability of the 3D MEMS photonic switching CALIENT offers.

Calient Technologies Inc.



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